STEP 1: COMING UP WITH YOUR INQUIRY QUESTION: FOCUSSING THE TOPIC. What kind of problems do you see in your community/world? What can YOU do to change it?start with "What if I..."
STEP 2: GO OUT and TAKE ACTION on your question.Collect data about your question and the effects of your action.You will probably have some failure. Document this (pictures) and use this in your storytelling
STEP 3. REVISIT your Inquiry QuestionChange the question or change the action according to your data so that you can realize some success in solving your problem TAKE ACTION again, and document any progress you have made.THINK BIG. Go community; go outside community; go global (ask yourself "how will we try to be more effective globally?)
STEP 4: Put together all of your data and your stories (successes and failures) and let us know what happened.REHEARSE YOUR TIMED PECHA KUCHA.
ENGLISH 10A TOPICS: DAY I: TUESDAY JANUARY 27 PRESENTATION DATES
JEREMY & THOMAS: THEME: SOCIAL INEQUALITY
PROBLEM: poverty in BC among children is the highest in Canada
INQUIRY QUESTION: What if we donated clothing, canned food or other supplies that are needed for youth to an inner city school?
DAVID & JIMMY: TRANSITIONING FROM ELEM TO HIGH SCHOOL
INQUIRY QUESTION: What if I contacted an elemlentary school and offered to talk to youth about the difficulties of transitioning from elementary school to high school
JAMES L.W. THEME:
PROBLEM: need more empathy
INQUIRY QUESTION: What if I donate time to a palliative care unit in a hospital and ask nurses if I can donate my time/energy.
IAN, YALE, ERIC: THEME: LOSS OF INNOCENCE
PROBLEM: Poverty and social inequality in our community
INQUIRY QUESTION: What if we went out and volunteered in our community
SARAH, MIKAELA, ABNEET, ZAYDE: THEME: SOCIAL INEQUALITY
PROBLEM: Poverty and inequality in the community
INQUIRY QUESTION: What if we raised money through sales of UHS water bottles and donated the money to a shelter or homeless shelter
SIBYL: THEME: SOCIAL INEQUALITY
PROBLEM: inequality of wealth & opportunities
INQUIRY QUESTION: if I asked an elementary school in the East Side of Vancouver what I could do to help in terms of donations
DAY II: THURSDAY JANUARY 29 PRESENTATION DATES
SUNNY, IRIS, CHLOE: THEME: ECONOMIC CONCERNS & INEQUALITY
PROBLEM: Poverty & inequality in our community
INQUIRY QUESTION: What if we donate useful things to people who are less fortunate
LUCY & KATHERINE: THEME: SOCIAL INEQUALITY
PROBLEM: poverty and inequality in our community
INQUIRY QUESTION: What if we helped by taking action and BC Poverty Association
ANEESA: THEME: SOCIAL INEQUALITY AMONG YOUTH (ABORIGINAL FOCUS)
PROBLEM: there is great social inequality among youth (especially aboriginal youth)
INQUIRY QUESTION: What if I donated my time and supplies to an aboriginal group and work in an aboriginal daycare?
ELIZABETH, MIA, ASHLEY: THEME: PERSPECTIVE
PROBLEM: there are still problems with society's perspective of women/men, as well as their self-acceptance
INQUIRY QUESTION: What if we let people post a selfie and say something they like about themselves? ; create a hashtag on instagram and post a compliment wall outside of english class
EVA, JENNIFER AND ANGEL: THEME: WOMEN
PROBLEM: Women have to go to shelters in our city
INQUIRY QUESTION: What if we went to women's shelters and helped out by volunteering our time or energy?
TIMMY & NOAH THEME: POVERTY (SOCIAL INEQUALITY)
PROBLEM: There are children in Vancouver who are living in poverty. BC has the highest child poverty rate in BC
INQUIRY QUESTION: What if we went to Southlands and asked the what kinds of things we can donate to the school?
ENGLISH 10D TOPICS: PART I PRESENTATIONS: TUESDAY JANUARY 27
GRACE, ANNIE W., SIRUI, YUXIN: THEME: SOCIAL INEQUALITY
PROBLEM: PEOPLE are indifferent to people who are less fortunate
INQUIRY: What if we donated supplies to schools or women's centres.
JENNIFER, HEATHER, CARINA, THEME: WOMEN
PROBLEM: there is still inequality
INQUIRY QUESTION: What if we raised money or collected clothing to donate for women?
JAN & DAVID: THEME: ECONOMIC CONCERNS (ENVIRONMENTAL LINKS)
PROBLEM: In condos and apartments, there is apathy in recycling materials (UBC area)
INQUIRY QUESTION: What if we raised awareness about proper recycling?
DANIEL, STEVEN, JOSEPH AND JASON THEME: WOMEN
PROBLEM: misogyny in music videos/lyrics
INQUIRY QUESTION: What if we stopped listening or watching any type of music with misogynistic lyrics & will parody thru a video; use social media to inform & change. We want to promote listening to artists that are not misogynistic or racist
OLIVER: THEME: SOCIAL INEQUALITY
PROBLEM: You see people behaving selfishly without thought about the greater good
INQUIRY QUESTION: What if I go out into the community centre and seniors centres and asked what I could do to help
SAM X: THEME: SOCIAL INEQUALITY
PROBLEM: Some children in our city are living in poverty and do not have food.
INQUIRY QUESTION: What if I raised money and collected canned food to donate to food banks?
PART II PRESENTATIONS: THURSDAY JANUARY 29
CHRISTINE, YURI, JOYCE, EVELYN: THEME: COURAGE
PROBLEM: People are not connected cohesively in our community;
INQUIRY QUESTION: What if we started to treat others the way we want to be treated? [pay-it-forward]
(trying to encourage people to socialize/talk together to improve face to face communication; makes our community more friendly)
JAMES L., EDWIN, AUSTIN: THEME: SOCIAL INEQUALITY
PROBLEM: Poverty & Inequality in our community
INQUIRY QUESTION: What if we collected clothing for youth and give it to a school in the East side? Going downtown to give out food; make sandwiches.
ALIM: THEME: DISCRIMINATION "Anti-bullying video"
INQUIRY QUESTION: what if I created a video to try to reduce discrimination in our school.
SAMUEL, JORDAN, BEN: THEME: SOCIAL INEQUALITY
PROBLEM: Poverty & economic inequality in our community
INQUIRY QUESTION: What if we save our leftover turkey and ham during Christmas and Thanks-giving (and of course any other time) and make sandwiches and give them to homeless people in our community?
THOMAS, CHRIS, RORY, SAM B: SOCIAL INEQUALITY. RACISM
PROBLEM: We're going to work on erasing racism
INQUIRY QUESTION: What if we donated clothing to Charlie's Closet
What kind of problems do you see in your community/world? What can YOU do to change it?start with "What if I..."
STEP 2: GO OUT and TAKE ACTION on your question.Collect data about your question and the effects of your action.You will probably have some failure. Document this (pictures) and use this in your storytelling
STEP 3. REVISIT your Inquiry QuestionChange the question or change the action according to your data so that you can realize some success in solving your problem
TAKE ACTION again, and document any progress you have made.THINK BIG. Go community; go outside community; go global (ask yourself "how will we try to be more effective globally?)
STEP 4: Put together all of your data and your stories (successes and failures) and let us know what happened.REHEARSE YOUR TIMED PECHA KUCHA.
ENGLISH 10A TOPICS:
DAY I: TUESDAY JANUARY 27 PRESENTATION DATES
JEREMY & THOMAS: THEME: SOCIAL INEQUALITY
PROBLEM: poverty in BC among children is the highest in Canada
INQUIRY QUESTION: What if we donated clothing, canned food or other supplies that are needed for youth to an inner city school?
DAVID & JIMMY: TRANSITIONING FROM ELEM TO HIGH SCHOOL
INQUIRY QUESTION: What if I contacted an elemlentary school and offered to talk to youth about the difficulties of transitioning from elementary school to high school
JAMES L.W. THEME:
PROBLEM: need more empathy
INQUIRY QUESTION: What if I donate time to a palliative care unit in a hospital and ask nurses if I can donate my time/energy.
IAN, YALE, ERIC: THEME: LOSS OF INNOCENCE
PROBLEM: Poverty and social inequality in our community
INQUIRY QUESTION: What if we went out and volunteered in our community
SARAH, MIKAELA, ABNEET, ZAYDE: THEME: SOCIAL INEQUALITY
PROBLEM: Poverty and inequality in the community
INQUIRY QUESTION: What if we raised money through sales of UHS water bottles and donated the money to a shelter or homeless shelter
SIBYL: THEME: SOCIAL INEQUALITY
PROBLEM: inequality of wealth & opportunities
INQUIRY QUESTION: if I asked an elementary school in the East Side of Vancouver what I could do to help in terms of donations
DAY II: THURSDAY JANUARY 29 PRESENTATION DATES
SUNNY, IRIS, CHLOE: THEME: ECONOMIC CONCERNS & INEQUALITY
PROBLEM: Poverty & inequality in our community
INQUIRY QUESTION: What if we donate useful things to people who are less fortunate
LUCY & KATHERINE: THEME: SOCIAL INEQUALITY
PROBLEM: poverty and inequality in our community
INQUIRY QUESTION: What if we helped by taking action and BC Poverty Association
ANEESA: THEME: SOCIAL INEQUALITY AMONG YOUTH (ABORIGINAL FOCUS)
PROBLEM: there is great social inequality among youth (especially aboriginal youth)
INQUIRY QUESTION: What if I donated my time and supplies to an aboriginal group and work in an aboriginal daycare?
ELIZABETH, MIA, ASHLEY: THEME: PERSPECTIVE
PROBLEM: there are still problems with society's perspective of women/men, as well as their self-acceptance
INQUIRY QUESTION: What if we let people post a selfie and say something they like about themselves? ; create a hashtag on instagram and post a compliment wall outside of english class
EVA, JENNIFER AND ANGEL: THEME: WOMEN
PROBLEM: Women have to go to shelters in our city
INQUIRY QUESTION: What if we went to women's shelters and helped out by volunteering our time or energy?
TIMMY & NOAH THEME: POVERTY (SOCIAL INEQUALITY)
PROBLEM: There are children in Vancouver who are living in poverty. BC has the highest child poverty rate in BC
INQUIRY QUESTION: What if we went to Southlands and asked the what kinds of things we can donate to the school?
ENGLISH 10D TOPICS:
PART I PRESENTATIONS: TUESDAY JANUARY 27
GRACE, ANNIE W., SIRUI, YUXIN: THEME: SOCIAL INEQUALITY
PROBLEM: PEOPLE are indifferent to people who are less fortunate
INQUIRY: What if we donated supplies to schools or women's centres.
JENNIFER, HEATHER, CARINA, THEME: WOMEN
PROBLEM: there is still inequality
INQUIRY QUESTION: What if we raised money or collected clothing to donate for women?
JAN & DAVID: THEME: ECONOMIC CONCERNS (ENVIRONMENTAL LINKS)
PROBLEM: In condos and apartments, there is apathy in recycling materials (UBC area)
INQUIRY QUESTION: What if we raised awareness about proper recycling?
DANIEL, STEVEN, JOSEPH AND JASON THEME: WOMEN
PROBLEM: misogyny in music videos/lyrics
INQUIRY QUESTION: What if we stopped listening or watching any type of music with misogynistic lyrics & will parody thru a video; use social media to inform & change. We want to promote listening to artists that are not misogynistic or racist
OLIVER: THEME: SOCIAL INEQUALITY
PROBLEM: You see people behaving selfishly without thought about the greater good
INQUIRY QUESTION: What if I go out into the community centre and seniors centres and asked what I could do to help
SAM X: THEME: SOCIAL INEQUALITY
PROBLEM: Some children in our city are living in poverty and do not have food.
INQUIRY QUESTION: What if I raised money and collected canned food to donate to food banks?
PART II PRESENTATIONS: THURSDAY JANUARY 29
CHRISTINE, YURI, JOYCE, EVELYN: THEME: COURAGE
PROBLEM: People are not connected cohesively in our community;
INQUIRY QUESTION: What if we started to treat others the way we want to be treated? [pay-it-forward]
(trying to encourage people to socialize/talk together to improve face to face communication; makes our community more friendly)
JAMES L., EDWIN, AUSTIN: THEME: SOCIAL INEQUALITY
PROBLEM: Poverty & Inequality in our community
INQUIRY QUESTION: What if we collected clothing for youth and give it to a school in the East side? Going downtown to give out food; make sandwiches.
ALIM: THEME: DISCRIMINATION "Anti-bullying video"
INQUIRY QUESTION: what if I created a video to try to reduce discrimination in our school.
SAMUEL, JORDAN, BEN: THEME: SOCIAL INEQUALITY
PROBLEM: Poverty & economic inequality in our community
INQUIRY QUESTION: What if we save our leftover turkey and ham during Christmas and Thanks-giving (and of course any other time) and make sandwiches and give them to homeless people in our community?
THOMAS, CHRIS, RORY, SAM B: SOCIAL INEQUALITY. RACISM
PROBLEM: We're going to work on erasing racism
INQUIRY QUESTION: What if we donated clothing to Charlie's Closet